Spring Festival
E181413
The Spring Festival is the most important traditional Chinese New Year celebration, marked by family reunions, festive meals, cultural rituals, and the welcoming of the lunar new year.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chinese New Year | 16 |
| Lunar New Year | 7 |
| Spring Festival canonical | 6 |
| Chinese New Year festival | 3 |
| Tết Nguyên Đán | 3 |
| Chinese Lunar New Year | 1 |
| Chinese New Year celebrations | 1 |
| Chinese New Year festivities | 1 |
| Chinese New Year’s Eve | 1 |
| Lunar New Year Festival | 1 |
| Lunar New Year celebrations | 1 |
| 春节 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1592664 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spring Festival Context triple: [Han Chinese, traditionalFestivals, Spring Festival]
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A.
Yi Peng Lantern Festival
The Yi Peng Lantern Festival is a traditional Thai celebration in Chiang Mai where thousands of glowing paper lanterns are released into the night sky to mark the Lanna-style Loy Krathong festivities.
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B.
Tet holiday
Tet holiday is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, the country’s most important and widely celebrated festival marking the arrival of spring and a time for family reunions and ancestral worship.
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C.
Têt
The Têt is a river in southern France that flows through the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitanie region before reaching the Mediterranean Sea.
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D.
Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional East Asian cultural and sporting event featuring dragon boat races, ceremonies, and community celebrations, often held on rivers or lakes.
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E.
Festival of Spring
Festival of Spring is a vibrant Hindu festival celebrated with colored powders, music, and dancing to mark the arrival of spring and the triumph of good over evil.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spring Festival Target entity description: The Spring Festival is the most important traditional Chinese New Year celebration, marked by family reunions, festive meals, cultural rituals, and the welcoming of the lunar new year.
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A.
Yi Peng Lantern Festival
The Yi Peng Lantern Festival is a traditional Thai celebration in Chiang Mai where thousands of glowing paper lanterns are released into the night sky to mark the Lanna-style Loy Krathong festivities.
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B.
Tet holiday
Tet holiday is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, the country’s most important and widely celebrated festival marking the arrival of spring and a time for family reunions and ancestral worship.
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C.
Têt
The Têt is a river in southern France that flows through the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitanie region before reaching the Mediterranean Sea.
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D.
Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional East Asian cultural and sporting event featuring dragon boat races, ceremonies, and community celebrations, often held on rivers or lakes.
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E.
Festival of Spring
Festival of Spring is a vibrant Hindu festival celebrated with colored powders, music, and dancing to mark the arrival of spring and the triumph of good over evil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese festival
ⓘ
cultural event ⓘ lunar new year celebration ⓘ public holiday ⓘ traditional festival ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Spring Festival
ⓘ
surface form:
Chinese New Year
Chunjie ⓘ Spring Festival ⓘ
surface form:
Lunar New Year
Spring Festival ⓘ
surface form:
春节
|
| associatedAnimal | zodiac animal of the new year ⓘ |
| associatedColor | red ⓘ |
| associatedItem |
dumplings
ⓘ
fish dishes ⓘ red envelopes ⓘ rice cakes ⓘ spring couplets ⓘ |
| basedOn | lunar-solar calendar ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalMeaning |
driving away bad luck
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strengthening family bonds ⓘ welcoming prosperity ⓘ |
| custom |
ancestor worship
ⓘ
cleaning the house before New Year ⓘ decorating with red lanterns ⓘ dragon dance performances ⓘ family reunion ⓘ giving red envelopes ⓘ lion dance performances ⓘ offering sacrifices to ancestors ⓘ pasting paper cuttings ⓘ putting up spring couplets ⓘ receiving red envelopes ⓘ reunion dinner ⓘ setting off firecrackers ⓘ setting off fireworks ⓘ staying up late on New Year’s Eve ⓘ visiting relatives and friends ⓘ wearing new clothes ⓘ |
| endsWith | Lantern Festival ⓘ |
| followsCalendar | Chinese lunar calendar ⓘ |
| mainEvent |
CCTV Spring Festival Gala
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surface form:
New Year’s Eve CCTV Spring Festival Gala
New Year’s Eve family reunion dinner ⓘ |
| observedIn |
Hong Kong, China
ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
Macau ⓘ China ⓘ
surface form:
Mainland China
Malaysia ⓘ Singapore ⓘ Taiwan, Province of China ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwan
overseas Chinese communities ⓘ |
| publicHolidayIn |
China
ⓘ
Hong Kong, China ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
Macau ⓘ Malaysia ⓘ Singapore ⓘ Taiwan, Province of China ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwan
Tet holiday ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnam (as Tết Nguyên Đán)
|
| religiousAspect |
ancestor veneration
ⓘ
folk religion practices ⓘ |
| significance |
marks beginning of the lunar new year
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most important traditional festival in China ⓘ symbolizes new beginnings and good fortune ⓘ time for family reunion ⓘ |
| startsWith |
Spring Festival
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Chinese New Year’s Eve
|
| timeOfYear | late January or February ⓘ |
| typicalDuration | 15 days ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | part of Chinese New Year practices recognized as intangible cultural heritage in some regions ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Spring Festival Description of subject: The Spring Festival is the most important traditional Chinese New Year celebration, marked by family reunions, festive meals, cultural rituals, and the welcoming of the lunar new year.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lunar New Year
this entity surface form:
Lunar New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year festival
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese Lunar New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Lunar New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year festival
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Tết Nguyên Đán
this entity surface form:
Lunar New Year celebrations
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Tết Nguyên Đán
this entity surface form:
Lunar New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Lunar New Year
this entity surface form:
春节
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year’s Eve
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year festivities
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year celebrations
this entity surface form:
Lunar New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year festival
this entity surface form:
Lunar New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Tết Nguyên Đán
subject surface form:
Ruyi
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Chinese New Year
this entity surface form:
Lunar New Year Festival